McConnell accuses Harry Reid of throwing ‘bomb into the Senate’

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Alex Pappas is a Washington D.C.-based political reporter for The Daily Caller. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and the Mobile Press-Register. Pappas is a graduate of The University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., where he was editor-in-chief of The Sewanee Purple. While in college, he did internships at NBC's Meet the Press and the White House. He grew up in Mobile, Ala., where he graduated from St. Paul's Episcopal School. He and his wife live on Capitol Hill.

The Republican leader also suggested that Obama and the Democrats are facing pressure from far-left liberals not to make changes to entitlements.

“I understand the dilemma the president and the majority leader have,” he said. “Their hard left doesn’t want to change anything ever. They think any dollar spent or any commitment made by the federal government on any program at any time ought to be there in perpetuity. Well, times change.”